They obviously do a good job of it. Preserving old languages for posterity, historical and cultural reasons will be a profitable business in coming years; I don't picture more than about ten or twelve of the languages spoken today still being here 25 years from now.

Skelton was known for "cultivating English as a language suitable for poetic composition". So it doesn't seem to be a 'regional' English but perhaps something 'Queens English'.

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Walter Hinteler

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Thu 17 Sep, 2015 07:15 am

@gungasnake,

gungasnake wrote:

They obviously do a good job of it.

It's done by students, part of "a self-organised module within the Research Master Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies". [MA in Classics & Ancient Civilizations (research). or MA in History (research), or MA in Literary Studies (research)]